The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-06

almost any other class of farm indus
tries If | make any exception at all il
/ would be those localities devoted to
raising fne-bred stock. The very nature
of the business compels to more and
more intelligence. And another thing
up to the advent of the bogus butter
swindle, you could never find dairy
community but what was prosperous
one. The gains may not be 50 rapid as
| in some other branches of farming but
! they are always sure. 1t gives employ
ment to every member of the family old
enough to drive the COWS or rock a
churn.
/ wish it were in my power TO give a
word picture of this, and more of day s
round of work on dairy farm as is
seen in hundreds of thousands of locali-
ties all over the north and west
If we should go back half century
to the New England farm home we
should see most of the milking done by
the wife and daughters. They rise with
the sun and with pals in each hand go
to the yard or arm where the cows are
kept through the night. The man tends
to the sucking what calves are not
weaned, while the women folks do the
made good sized dairy. Each person
MIXED certain particular COWS, and the
cows know their mixer and will be
more or less restive if strange hand is
felt. How gentle the cows are. How
kindly the milk-maid speaks to "Sue."
And '.Bess" stands patiently by waiting
her turn for gentle word and hoists
her leg to give room for the pail, as the
girl with stool in hand comes near
How carefully all dirt and dust is
brushed off from the udder before milk
ing commences, and then with head
leaning against the flank OF the COW,
and pail between the knees and grasp
ing the teats with both hands, how soon
the pail Is running over with the foam
ing freth and the COW is MIXED. One,
two, three each and the job is done; the
full pals are carried to the cool sweet
dairy room, or spring milk house and
strained In bright shallow tin pans and
set away on shelves for cream to rise, or
all is strained into the large cheese tub
to be made into cheese. One of the
little boys or girls as the case may be is
sent to drive the cows to the pasture,
perhaps quarter or half a mile away.
Ali day long the cows pick at the
short sweet grass between the rocks, or
getting full, seeking some cool shade
where they lie and chew contentedly
the cud, leisuriiy switching away the
flies, or stand breast deep at noontide
hour in the stream that runs through
the pasture. Oni yes how the old hilly
rocky pasture all comes back again to
our memory. How | used to step and
jump from rock to rock with my little
bare feet as | used to try to go around
the cows and drive them up to the gate
at sundown without once putting feet
on the ground. Then how slow they
went up the hill from the pasture gate
to the farm yard, each chewing her cud
and stopping every few rods as if to rest
while little streams of milk spin from
the distended teats; what foaming big
pals of milk mother and the elder sis
ters MIXED from those cows.
How nice those old cows were to our
boy eyes. 1t would have been almost
an objectionable sin to have run one of
them or to set old Tige on them; what !
dog a COW? why, what would mother
say?
If we turn to the dairy farm of later
years and in the west We shall see often
20, 30, 40 and sometimes up to rs or 100
cows.
Every man, woman and child old
enough is pressed into service night and
morning at milking time. | have seen
many little girl 10 to Is years old
milk her 6 to 10 cows morning and
night.
If farm dairying is practiced the milk
is set away in long deep cans in cool
weather for cream raising; if for cheese,
it is strained over into vat designed
for the purpose and at the proper tenn
perature rennett added TO make it curd,
and then the various manipulations
gone through with necessary to produce
desirable cheese.
But the one main thing will be seen
in all properly conducted dairies, and
| that is the proper treatment of the
COWS. None of us yet are fully up to a
proper realization of how kindly to treat
the COW. She should never at any time
| be spoken harshly to, much less be
beaten.
She should never be hurried. 1t is
absolutely cruel to run cow with a full
udder. Let every cow feel and know
that you are her friend and protector.
Discharge the hired man without cere-
IAony that ever kicks her or strikes her
with the milking stool. ANY man that
will abuse good dairy COW is a fit can
didate for the State prison, and it is
only question of time and an opportu-
nifty to do the nextact mean enough to
get there. The COW should be the queen
of the barn yard, yes and of the farm
No Arab ever loved more devotedly his
steed than does true dairyman his
COW.
He never passes her without bestow
ing caressing pat, or kind word.
In yard or pasture she never moves
out of her tracks should she be standing
in her owners path.
he always goes around her, aud pats
her as he does so, and after she turn:
and follows him for more recognition.
| Well have detained you already toe
long.
The secret of our success mainly lie
in doing our work ourselves, and wher
there is too much for our own force We
hire helper, and we lead in the work
We seldom say go, but we often say
come.
i We always gauge our expenditures ac
cordi1g TO our income 80 as to be sur,
there will be some balance left on tn,
right side of the account book.
Now as have said | wanted to max
my talk to young men, let me suppos
that one thousand strong young men
determined on making for themselves ;
farm home, and they start with vii
and purpose to this end. They ma,
! not have hundred dollars in the world
but they have health, good heads, ant
an unyielding purpose. For the frs
, few years they may work for wage
perhaps. After while they secnr
some of YOUR cheap lands and built
their first rude house, and a commence
ment is made. We pass along for L
! years. Each man has an average of ss
100 acres and pretty we'll under cultiya
ton, so that each can keep at least .
J good COWS.
II Ny own experience is that l coul
. always make COW pay for herself eacl
! year; with 80 or 40 cows on the farm
| could support my family, meet all ez
! penses and could buy as many NOR
i from the income of the cows and th
farm.
III Now here are a thousand energetic
/ intelligent farmers; they have improve
1 the conHtry and have each good hom,
: farm Of 100 acres each, and each yea
3 they are creating working capits
4 equal to the one they already nav,
! | Here would be capital equal in vaIu
to 10000 cows created by these l00
4 farmers who started out Is years az
!. with nothing but their hands and
: determination to build home. This
: no ideal or fancy calculation.
: Hundreds and thousands of us up
4 the cold North have done this over an
8 oTeF again.
al Realize IL you can the tremendou
! ad Vantage To your State. and its crout